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Three grandchildren take their Dutch-Indonesian grandparents to the place where they first set foot on Dutch soil. Can they unravel the long-silenced history of their grandparents about the colonial past in Indonesia?

Saar, a Dutch farmers daughter (about 10 years old) writes about her family and everyday life, but especially about her little sister Sien (5). Sien is an adventurous little girl who doesn't want to wear dresses, wants to play soccer and gets into all sorts of trouble.

No-nonsense Carla is a 62-year-old woman from the Netherlands who converted to Islam. Against the expectations of many, she married Fouad, a 33-year-old Libyan freedom fighter. Although the couple live contentedly together in Amsterdam, the political turmoil in the Middle East continually bleeds into their lives. Yet, since Carla is past a child-bearing age, it is when the pair seek a second wife for Fouad that their relationship is really put to the test.

An anthology series of six stories set in and around Rotterdam Central Railway Station.

The death of Jacob Israel de Haan is commemorated annually by both the ultra-Orthodox Jews of Neturei Karta in Jerusalem, and the LGBTQ community in Amsterdam. He is a pioneer for both. In the early twentieth century, he published the first LGBTQ novel in the Netherlands. He then returned to his Jewish roots, migrated to Palestine as a Zionist, but became the spokesperson for the Orthodox community, spearheading its fight against Zionism. He was still publishing queer poetry in Dutch. He was killed in Jerusalem in 1924, and his assassins were never caught. Today, never-before-heard audio recordings shed new light upon the mystery of the first Zionist political assassination.

Luc Tuymans is one of Belgium's most internationally renowned painters. We see him working on a large mural, in his studio, on the drawing board and as a curator.

About flotation, race and other motives

Reconstruction of the political drama around Ayaan Hirsi Ali that heralded the fall of the Dutch cabinet. A musical documentary on a subject close to all Dutch people: truth and lies in politics. The film exposes the motives surrounding the drama in which feminist activist and politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali was accused of lying about her identity. In this political story we are also told the personal tale of the young girl Sadaf, who sought asylum years ago. THE LIE demonstrates the human side of Dutch politics, while revealing how Holland deals with the thorny immigration issue.

9-episode travelogue through The Netherlands of 1823, following the itinerary and words as jotted down in the diary of young Dutch author Jacob van Lennep, who hiked -by foot and coach- during three months in the rainy summer of 1823, through the young Kingdom of the Netherlands, eight years after its becoming independent. Author Geert Mak, as narrator, joined me during the sunny summer of 2000 on a trip retracing the footsteps of Van Lennep, with the amazing result that most of the 19th century's locations could be found intact, following the original footpaths and coach-routes. Thus this mini-series turned out to be a living testimony of cultural-history of The Netherlands of 200 years ago.

Ellen ten Damme guides the story of Jacques and Jossy Halland, two Jewish variety artists and professional nomads, who, after years of wandering and performing abroad, set up the last Yiddish theater in Western Europe : Theater Lilalo.

Art documentary about the visual artist Robert Zandvliet and the cultural dialogue about visual arts between West and East.

Documentary short series on contemporary Dutch artists.

Toer van Schaijk (1936) is dancer, choreographer, painter, sculpturer, stage- and costume designer. Director Barbara Makkinga portraits him during the staging of his famous choreography for 'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King' in the Wielki Theater in Warschau. In the same period Toer loses his best friend and famous choreographer Rudi van Dantzig.

This short movie takes us through beautiful landscapes and oppressive spaces. A dream sequence that leads to liberation, on the border between imagination and reality. We travel with a boy who matures. He dreams, he dances, he is the conductor. The only.

Pianist and composer Reinbert de Leeuw has gone back to the St Matthew Passion of J.S. Bach. Filmer Cherry Duyns has followed De Leeuw from the first rehearsals with orchestra and choir, until the performance in Amsterdam's Nieuwe Kerk.